Join us for a panel discussion on the the war in Ukraine and its religious roots. Panelists will include: Thomas Cattoi, Associate Professor of Christology and Cultures, Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University, GTU John Klentos, Associate Professor of Eastern Orthodox Christian Studies, Patriarch Athenagoras Orthodox Institute, GTU Vitaliy Osmolovskyy SJ, doctoral student at […]
Join Drs. Kathryn Barush and Mahjabeen Dhala in this GTUx Live conversation about the power of pilgrimage. Dr. Barush will discuss her work with The Berkeley Art and Interreligious Pilgrimage Project, which is an invitation to create and experience art-infused pilgrimages in the Bay Area and beyond. It seeks to link sacred landscapes the world over […]
Dr. Ashley L. Bacchi (GTU, PhD 2015), Assistant Professor of Jewish History and Ancient Mediterranean Religions at Starr King School for the Ministry, has been awarded the fifth annual Borsch-Rast Book Prize and Lectureship for her 2020 work, Uncovering Jewish Creativity in Book III of the Sibylline Oracles: Gender, Intertextuality, and Politics (Brill). Register to attend virtually […]
Each spring a remarkable person is chosen to reflect upon a sacred text for the Reading of the Sacred Texts lecture. Our speaker this year is Vanessa Zoltan. Vanessa is trained as an atheist chaplain. She is the CEO and Founder of Not Sorry Productions, which produces the podcasts Harry Potter and the Sacred Text, […]
Join us for the 2022 Surjit Singh Lecture. This year’s speaker will be Dr. Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History and Director, Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. Title: "The Virgin Mary as Warrior: Marian models of women’s religious experience in colonial Latin America." Description: The historiography of women’s piety in […]
In this GTUx Live event, Dr. Rita Sherma and Dr. Devin Zuber will lead a conversation around the innate connections between humans and the natural world. Following the discussion they had in their GTUx Original, Drs. Sherma and Zuber will lead participants through an opportunity to think deeper about the sacrality of nature in different […]
